Spreading bagel butter on your monitor will most definitely cause the
fuzzy results you report.
Chuck Norcutt
Bob Whitmire wrote:
> OK, I'm still thinking about a second LCD monitor. While perusing the
> Dell site, having heard their Ultrasharp models were exceptionally
> nice for the price, I noticed in the tech specifications Dell lists a
> number of resolutions and refresh rates. This seems damn near perfect
> for some of the tasks I envision, including writing web pages that
> people without Apple Cinema displays can see on their monitors
> without need for scrolling half way across the universe.
>
> So, all I've heard says that with Apple, one should leave the native
> resolution where it lies, which in my case is 1920x1200. When I mess
> with that resolution in system preferences, I get downright ugly
> results, that is, what comes on screen looks fuzzy and not at all
> attractive. Things appear correctly only at 1920x1200. And while this
> is perfect for watching Lord of the Rings <g.>, it leaves something
> to be desired with more text-heavy tasks.
>
> Is this not the case with other monitors that advertise different
> resolutions at different refresh rates? The Dell seems like it would
> be perfect for such tasks as web authoring because I could set
> resolution down to something more likely to be right for the majority
> of viewers, in the 1024 to 728 range, which is the resolution my
> current site was written at.
>
> I apologize for the newbie questions, but folks on this list have a
> way of explaining things far better than the folks at the sites which
> sell the equipment. They all assure me I can do anything I like
> including butter my bagel with their products. I have many tasks in
> mind for my monitors, but bagel-buttering is not one of them.
>
> --Bob
>
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